@RegDwigнt I mean if you export your parts list as html grid (including set and loose parts) I have some JS I stick on that page which re-organizes the data so you can see all your collection of pieces by colour, or by type, or whatever.

Also see here and here. I am mortified yea unto stultification — or perhaps I mean the other way around — that people keep asking this same question about a simple law with no exceptions over and over and over and and over and over and and over and over. I blame the miseducation system; it must have started when some first-grade teacher just made something up that had no basis in actual English phonology or orthography, and like a virus this confusion has spread far and wide. Please be part of the cure. — tchrist2 mins ago

@nosmoking It's all stats. The label to those charts are funny because it's a 'false friend'. Esperance sounds like it means You -wish- to die at a certain age, rather than expectation/clinical average of age at death.

It’s bad enough that most people are idiots. It is utterly insupportable that they should all feed on one another, reinforcing and reproducing this stupidity until it has infected not merely the entire Anglosphere but the Himalayas and the South Pole. This disease must be stopped. The Apostrophic Jihad has been duly notified, and they take no prisoners once their wrath is kindled against one. Caveant idiotae!

The Allegory of the Cave (also titled Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave or Parable of the Cave) is presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic (514a–520a) to compare "...the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter. The allegory is presented after the Analogy of the Sun (508b–509c) and the Analogy of the Divided Line (509d–513e). All three are characterized in relation to dialectic at the end of Books VII and VIII (531d–534e).
Plato has Socrates...

@Mitch My problem is not so much that they don’t know their s from a hole in the ground as it is that that they don’t know where to stick it, and therefore gleefully freely pass this insidious perversion far and wide until people are dropping every other s that they houd be uing.

Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake.
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Mat (Russian: мат; матерщи́на / ма́терный язы́к / мáтный язы́к , matershchina / materny yazyk / matny yazyk; Ukrainian: матюки, matyuky) is the term for strong obscene profanity in Russian and some other Slavic language communities. The use of mat is censored in the media and the use of mat in public constitutes a form of disorderly conduct, or mild hooliganism, punishable under article 20.1.1 of the Offences Code of Russia, although it is enforced only episodically, in particular due to the vagueness of the legal definition. Despite the public ban, mat is used by Russians of all ages and nearly...

There is a wrongly translated text on the german Careers start page:
Search hits
has been translated to
Treffer durchsuchen
which means "search for hits" (as in the activity). A more accurate translation would be something like
Suchtreffer
or
Treffer in der Suche
The cu...

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That’s kind of an interesting question. RGB converts to HSV in 3 yes, or to CMYK in 4. The K is needed for practical reasons. However, the optimal values of the RGB primaries are a bit interesting, and disputed. There are standards for this, though, for reproducibility.

After answering a question in SciFi if the Big Brother existed as a real person, I got responses that the last chapter, the Appendix (which can be found here), definitely proves that Oceania ceased to exist because it describes Newspeak from a historical perspective. One proponent cited an essay ...

Hoodoo, also known as "conjure" and sometimes confused with "voodoo", is a traditional African-American folk spirituality that developed from a number of West African, Native American and European spiritual traditions.
== Roots of hoodoo ==
Hoodoo has some spiritual principles and practices similar to spiritual folkways in Haitian, Cuban, Jamaican and New Orleans traditions. Hoodoo seems to have evolved in the Mississippi Delta where the concentration of slaves had been dense. Hoodoo then spread throughout the Southeast as well as North along the Mississippi as African Americans left the Delta...

@tchrist a year ago or so I went over it in great detail with Mr Shiny, and am really not in the mood to re-chew it all, but the executive summary is: here they charge you three times over. For having a card, for using it, and of course the 3% added to the price of all products across the board for everyone, except of course it's illegal so nobody will admit it.

@RegDwigнt Oh sure, the credit-card companies make lots of money. But that's simply because they don't let vendors give you a rebate for using cash or a cheaper payment method. I'm fairly sure that will be sorted out in 5-10 years. Meanwhile I get 2% back on all my gas and groceries and 1% back on everything else. What % back do you get for using cash?

What really pisses me off is that they passed a law that there couldn’t be a credit-card charge like for gas, so of course they jacked the price for everyone and sometimes gave a cash discount back to the real price.

And my wife is not even allowed to get one. She specifically requested one from VISA, because she visits a ton of websites abroad that only accept credit cards. First, VISA told her to disclose her income, then she told them she didn't have any, then they told her it was okay to lie to them, just enter any number above zero, then she did that, then she got a fat big lot of nothing. Some dumbed-down version of a credit card that is not accepted anywhere.

I'm hoping to get rid of the "too minor" edit rejection reason, in favor of a more direct way of indicating edits that fail to significantly improve a post. We're also fixing to warn editors when their edits are rejected. Between the two of these changes, I'm thinking the other rejection reasons ...